"Building Basic Therapeutic Skills is an essential handbook that provides the nuts-and-bolts guidelines for clinical practice and basic skills all therapists must master if they are to become effective clinicians."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface -- Introduction -- Developing Observational Skill -- Essential Evaluations and Assessments -- First Session: Diagnosis and Treatment Planning -- Establishing Rapport -- Therapeutic Interviewing -- Managing Emergencies and Crisis -- Practical Predicaments and Ethical Dilemmas: What to Do When ... -- Using Yourself: A Therapeutic Challenge -- Making the Most of Supervision: Dual Perspectives -- Afterword -- The author -- Index
